• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

    The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

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        2 days ago

        i mean maybe that’s what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
        Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the “default food” basically, like fish and chips in the UK.

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            4 days ago

            The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It’s obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.

            Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that’s a little rabbit hole if you’re curious.